The pale king

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  • Author: Wallace, David Foster , Pietsch, Michael
    Contributor:

    Petkoff, Robert

    Summary:

    The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has.

    Subject(s): Fiction
    Original Publisher: [New York] , Hachette Book Group
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781609417321

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    1609417321

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Petkoff, Robert

Abstract

The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has.

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Fiction
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[New York]

Hachette Book Group

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